Ledyard - Places in The United States

Famous quotes containing the words united states, places in, places, united and/or states:

“In the United States there is more space where nobody is is than where anybody is.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

“Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)

“The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene before affection and condescension before all else.”
—Sunday Correspondent (London, Aug. 12, 1990)

“It is a united will, not mere walls, which makes a fort.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)